Gasolene-generator.



c. A. TRIPPf' GASOLENE GENERATOR.

APPLICATION FILED IU LY 24.19I6.

Patented Apr. 15, 1919.

llIll/E/VTOH OMEL 55 7 7 1 /20 BY mm A TTOR/VEYS CHARLES A. TRIPP, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO HOLCOMB & I-I OKE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, A CORPORATION.

GASOLENE-GENERATOR.

1 b all whom it may concern Be it known that I, OnAnLns A. TRIPP, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Indianapolis, county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a certain new and useful Gasolene-Generator; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters refer to like parts.

One object of this invention is the decreasing of the quantity of fuel used for vaporizing the gasolene. This is accomplished by increasing the area exposed to the flame, relative to the area exposed to the gasolene, of the member in which the liquid gasolene is converted into a gas. This in crease in the surface is herein effected by proi iding the heated member with ribs or projections on the under side so that the area of the exposed surface of the heated member on its under side will be greatly increased, and a correspondingly greater proportion of the heat coming from the means for heating the heated member will be taken up by said heated member.

Another object of this invention is to prevent the recondensation of gas caused by the cooling effect of expansion at the regulating valve. This is accomplished by locating the regulating valve within the heating member so that the gas is reheated after passing the valve. In the particular form shown a portion of the passage through which the gas flows after passing the regulating valve is so located in the heated member as to be di rectly heated by the flame or hot gases from the means for heating the heated member.

Another object of this invention is to prevent the recondensation of the gasolene gas in the mixture which supplies the burners of the heated member. This is particularly desirable when operating the generator to supply a small volume of gas, and is accomplished by conducting that portion of the gas which is to be used for the heated member burners downward through a passage, the walls of which are heated by the said burners Another object of this invention is to produce a compact, self-contained generator, wherein all of the parts will have the least possible exposure to the air and thus de crease the cooling effect, and the consequent Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 15, 1919.

tendency of the gasolene gas to condense at various points in the generator passages.

The full nature of the invention will be understood from the accompanying drawings and the following description and claims:

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a central vertical section through the generator. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

In the construction herein shown there is a heated member 10 having a chamber 11 which is supplied with gasolene from any suitable source through an inlet 12 and pipe 13. The chamber 11 extends around near the margin of said heated member and discharges past a regulating valve 14 into a chamber 15 associated with the heated member and from which a conduit 16 extends downward. The lower end of this conduit is curved and discharges upwardly through a nozzle 17 The discharge from said nozzle is in vertical alinement with the center of the heated member. It is located below the lower end of a mixer tube 18 which extends centrally through and is carried by a flashing pan or hydrocarbon receptacle 19 located below the heated member whereby the heating member may be initially heated in the usual manner by igniting hydrocarbon specially placed in said flashing pan for the purpose.

The flashing pan or receptacle 19 is supported by a centrally located tube 20 which extends centrally upward through the heated member to a point above it. A gas service tube 21 leads from the upper end of said tube 20 to any point to which it is desired to convey the gas for use. The tube 20 surrounds the mixer tube 18 so as to leave. a space or chamber 22 between said tubes.

The upper end of the tube 18 extends above the heating member and after the gas passes upward through said tube 20, some of it descends by gravity through the chamber 22, as it is heavier than the air, and supplies burners 23 which may be like Bunsen burners, located below the heating member and mounted in and carried by the flashing pan or receptacle 19. The lower end of the chamber 22 is closed excepting for passages 24 leading therefrom to each of said burners 23. In this way said burners are supplied with gas for heating the heated member.

The under side of the heated member is supplied with a number of downwardly extending heated ribs 25 for the purpose of increasing the surface of the heated member exposed to the flame or hot gases coming up from the burners 23.

In the form herein shown such exposed surface of the under side of the heated member exceeds many times what it would be if there were no ribs, and consequently a proportionately greater amount of heat is absorbed by the surface of said heated member from the flame or hot gases coming up from the-burners 23. This enables the heated member to be kept heated with a very small supply of fuel or gas and contributes greatly to the efliciency of the generator, for the higher and more nearly uniform the temperature of the heated member is maintained, the more effective will it prove in converting the gasolene into gas.

The invention claimed is:

1 A gasolene generator including a heated member having a chamber extending through the same adjacent the outer edges thereof for receiving and converting gasolene into gas, a conduit extending upwardly through said heated member and through the upper end of which the gas passes after it has been mixed with air, burners located under the heated member which are in communication with the lower end of said gas .conduit, and a mixer tube extending through the lower part of said gas conduit to said heated member and smaller than said conduit so as to leave a chamber around said tube for the gas to descend to and supply said burners.

'2. A gasolene generator including a heat ed member for receiving and converting gas- .olene into gas, a conduit extending upwardly through said heated member and through which the gas passes after it has been mixed with air, a flash pan secured to said conduit burners carried by said flash pan and located under the heated member which are in communication with the lower end of said gas conduit, a mixer tube carried by the flash pan and extending through the lower part of said gas conduit to said heated member and smaller than said conduit so as to leave a chamber around said tube for the gas to descend and supply said burners, and a con- ,duit for conveying the gas from said heated member and discharging it upward-1y into the lower end of said mixing tube.

3. A gasolene generator including a heated member for receiving and converting gasolene into gas, a conduit extending upwardly through said heated member and through which the gas passes after it has been mixed with air, a flashing pan secured to and supported by the lower end of said gas conduit, a mixer tube extending through said flashing pan and the lower portion of said gas conduit and to a point above said heated member so as to leave a chamber between said tube and conduit, and burners carried by said flashing pan and in communication with the lower end of said conduit for receiving gas therefrom as it descends in the chamber between said mixer tube and conduit.

4. A gasolene generator including a heated member for receiving and converting gasolene into gas, a conduit extending upwardly through said heated member and through the upper end of which the gas p asses after it has been mixed with air, burners located under the heated member which are in communication with the lower end of said gas conduit, a mixer tube parallel with and communicating at its upper end with saidgas conduit and extending above said heated member, and a conveying pipe extending from said heated member to the lower end of said mixer tube exteriorly of said outer conduit and burners.

5. A gasolene ,generatorincluding a heat- .ed member for receiving and converting gasolene into gas, a conduit extending up- Wardly through said heated member and through which the gas passes after it has been mixed with air, burners located under the heated member which are in communication with the lower end of said gas conduit, and a mixer tube parallel with and communicating at its upper end with said gas conduit and extending above said heated member, and a conduit for conveying the gas from said heated member and discharging it upwardly into the lower end of said mixing tube, said latter conduit being exteriorly of said first conduits and burners.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed my signature.

CHARLES A. TRIPP.

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